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Page 4 ISSUE 10 What's the status of local or municipal recreation open space in the metropolitan system? What should the Council's involve- ment be in it? T QUESTIONS 3. Related to issue 11 as well as issue 10; should there be rewards to those communities which grant consent to regional park acquisition and development within their jurisdiction and, should there be penalties to those which do not? A~ a mtintimum ~hene ahau~d be ne~mbun~emen~ ~a mun~c~pa2 ~~tie~ fan ~envticed ~a negtiana~ pane. 3SSUE 11 What is an appropriate level of municipal participation and con ro in tfie ea-veering regiona recrea ion open space sys em? The 1974 parks act says that: ...(the implementing agency)...shall prepare, after consultation with all affected municipalities, and submit...a master plan. The policy plan uses similar language in policy 9:• Each implementing agency is responsible for preparing a master plan for each regional system unit assigned to it by this policy plan. An implementing agency shall present the master plan to affected local units of government and address their concerns prior to submission to the Council. The intent semms plain. Some municipalities have stated that their access to master plans has come only after the agency has adopted the plan, making substantive change to meet their con- cerns improbable. If this has happened, it is not consistent with policy. From another point of view, some implementing agencies cite cases in which muncipalities have delayed plan approval unduly in some cases insisting upon conditions which work against the agency or the regional interest. Some implementing agencies have been prevented from installing needed .improvements, even developments for which the municipalities had given earlier concept approval. There are differences in the laws which control implementing agencies from on jurisdiction to another and some of these have, on occasion, blocked an implementing agency from going ahead with regional projects. One major effect some municipalities have exerted upon regional open space has been special assessments levied against parks. The Council, the commission and some of the implementing agencies have stated increasing concern over the process by which munici- palities have made special assessments against regional parkland, questing if they were based upon actual benefits to the park. Other concerns are about how assessments should be paid and when they should be-set, One remedy suggested is-that the agency could agree to treat the permit, possibly meeting at one municipalities the implementin municipality and the implementing master plan as a conditional use e concerns on the part of the g agency and the .Council about the current planning process.